From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9ab217670704130831s26fa33fcs413daeefff30457@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:31:52 -0400 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] SMTP Woes In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9ab217670704130814j639969b0oa3726607971e33dd@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 46c802b4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2007/4/13, erik quanstrom : > i don't know anything about gmail, but smtp.gmail.com is not > an mx for gmail.com. here's what i get: Weird that it works for fgb then. > ; ndb/dnsquery > > gmail.com mx > gmail.com mx 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com > gmail.com mx 50 gsmtp163.google.com > gmail.com mx 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com > > do you have a rule for gmail that says to use smtp.gmail.com? > > - erik I have only what I described -- let me try using `gmail.com' then instead. (All the documentation that gmail has says to use smtp.gmail.com as the mail server). Also, their DNS changes depending on which DNS server actually gets your query and where you're located and all sorts of stuff, so I don't think I can just set it to one of those. --dho